Clean Energy News October 20025

Image: inBusiness PHX   inBusiness PHX NovaSource Power Services, the premium provider of total asset optimization including operations and maintenance for utility-scale solar and battery energy storage services, has announced the official opening of NovaAcademy, a dedicated training center and curriculum designed to accelerate workforce readiness and raise the indus...

Utility Dive Torch Clean Energy is developing two 80 MW solar arrays in Cochise County, Arizona, and has selected Fluence Energy to deliver a 160 MW / 640 MWh battery system to support the renewables, the companies announced Wednesday. The project is an example of the clean energy buildout expected across the United States. The U.S. Energy Information Administrati...

Papago Solar Storage. Photo: InBusiness PHX inBusiness PHX Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and a global developer, owner, and operator of solar and energy storage assets, today announced it has closed $825 million in construction financing and tax equity for its Desert Bloom Storage and Papago Solar facilities. Nord/LB, Mitsubishi UFJ Finan...

inBusiness PHX Arizona State University announced the creation of the Global Institute for the Future of Energy, supported by a $50 million gift from Robert Zorich, managing partner of EnCap Investments and an alumnus of ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Management. The institute, a collaboration between Thunderbird and ASU’s Global Futures Laboratory, will f...

KJZZ Phoenix For the first time, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the primary source of electricity around the world, a new report says, indicating a shift in the global reliance on environmentally harmful fossil fuels. Renewable electricity use rose to 34.3% of global consumption in the first half of 2025, while coal’s use fell to 33.1%, the energy think tan...

KJZZ Phoenix Chino Valley became the latest Arizona community to adopt rules restricting renewable energy development when the town’s council adopted a ban on new large-scale solar and wind projects. The Chino Valley Town Council voted unanimously Sept. 23 to adopt the ordinance, which still allows residents and businesses to install smaller scale renewable energy on their p...

Phoenix Business Journal Story Highlights What’s This? Avantus plans 2,000-acre solar project near Phoenix for 70,000 homes Construction of Pinyon Solar Project begins fall 2026, ends 2028 Project will generate $100M in tax revenue for local services A renewable energy company plans to develop more than 2,000 acres near Phoenix for a utility solar energy project ...